The Defense Department awarded $2 million to ReElement Technologies Corp. for its technology to separate and purify critical minerals and rare-earth elements for national security applications, the company announced today . “Our 42-acre refining campus in Marion, Indiana, has the capability to supply a majority -- if not all -- of the rare-earth and critical minerals required by the defense industry” through ReElement’s rare-earth element separation process using refining chromatography methods, CEO Mark Jensen said. That award comes from the...